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Proverbs - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
- So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
- Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
- If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
- Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
- For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding:
- He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity;
- That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
- Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path.
- For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
- Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
- To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
- Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
- Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
- Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
- To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
- That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
- For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
- None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
- That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
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